iOS devices represented 77% of all mobile device activations in the enterprise market in the final quarter of 2012, with the top five slots all occupied by Apple devices, reports Good Technology's Device Activation Report.

The company monitors smartphone and tablet devices activated among its enterprise clients, which include half of the Fortune 100. Apple devices occupied eight of the top ten slots, including all of the top five. iOS activations grew 8.5% year-on-year.

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This quarter's report showed a clear preference for iOS devices, which accounted for 77 percent of all activations and captured eight of the top ten spots on the most popular device list this quarter. While Android activations dropped 6.3 percent as compared to Q4 2011, they still accounted for 22.7 percent of all activations for the quarter, which were primarily driven by Android tablets. Windows Phone devices came in a distant third for the quarter, capturing just 0.5 percent of overall activations.

Apple completely dominated the tablet market with 93.2% of activations, with the Samsung Galaxy Tab taking a distant second place.

The financial services industry led enterprise device activations during the quarter, followed by business and professional services. Together, these two industries made up more than half of the activations reported in Q4.

Apple regularly emphasizes enterprise adoption of iOS in its earnings conference calls, repeatedly noting that nearly all of the Fortune 500 companies are piloting or deploying the iPhone and iPad for their users. Apple also maintains dedicated sections of its website promoting the iPhone and iPad for use in business.

This is because companies need solid, secure and reliable products. Samsung thrives on cheap marketing to teens and to those that believe that widgets make the experience revolutionary. Procurement departments are smarter than that.

Apparently so. Also funny to hear that Galaxy S3 is eating into iPhone sales on Market Watch video on WSJ Live yesterday when iPhone is still blowing it out of the water and increasing year over year.

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Originally Posted by M-O

more good news, time to dump the stock!

No kidding. The market only rewards Apple for creating something new -- not for executing on something great they have already created and raking in money. What is the point of an innovation if you don't make money on it. Businesses are suppose to make money -- that is what Apple is doing.

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Originally Posted by 0815

selling my AAPL stock now, before it drops under $500 ..... I am sure some analyst was expecting higher numbers and this will cause the market now to crash.

You're too late for $500. The media/analyst agenda has already driven it below that point. Apple is poised to buy back the company right now in eight years or less at their current profit rate.

While technically true, this headline fails to paint an accurate picture of the data within the report.

That article is evidence of the media/analyst agenda here. How somebody could spin that report into something negative for Apple is beyond me, but it obviously took a whole lot of effort to come up with that headline. The headline should have been "Android still sucks in enterprise, but not as bad as before".

This actually means less than it seems. Good Technology is just an email connector. Device are "activated" once the Good app is configured on the device, which in many cases are personal devices. How about some numbers on how many businesses are using Blackberry versus Good. That would show the real impact of Android and iOS devices in the enterprise.